From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T00:31:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Confirmation required - initialising

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:20 AM, John Maclean wrote:
> 
>> Is i) and ii) just two different methods for initialising?
>>
>> i)
>>  class Song
>>   attr_reader :name, :artist, :
>>  end
> 
> 
> If you remove the trailing , and :, the above is equivalent to:
> 
> class Song
>   def name
>     @name
>   end
>   def artist
>     @artist
>   end
> end
> 

Except that rdoc produces different output for each.


James
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